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will have to change the way we do business
to support a new focus. Our campaign
plan is the road map to do that."
e goal of the plan's four lines of e ort
is to focus the 24,000-strong command
more tightly on the capabilities that
Army leadership has made its top pri-
orities while maintaining the balance
needed to make the new discoveries and
develop the new technologies that will
become the capabilities the future force
needs to be dominant. e lines of e ort
are: integrated technology development
and engineering ser vices; talent manage-
ment and infrastructure; business process
and resource optimization; and strategic
communications.
RDECOM is leveraging its campaign
plan to optimize resources and collabo-
rate across the Army community and with
industry, academia and international
partners to inform S&T requirements
and execute research and technology
that will deliver required capabilities for
Soldiers.
RDECOM, a major subordinate com-
mand of the U.S. Army Materiel
Command, also works closely with its
fellow Army S&T partners---the U.S.
Army Space and Missile Defense Com-
mand, U.S. Army Medical Research and
Materiel Command and the U.S. Army
Engineer Research and Development
Center---to round out its portfolio.
LICENSE TO INTEGRATE
e integrated technology development
and engineering services line of e ort is
intended to focus the command on iden-
tifying and inserting the right research
and technology to ll gaps in current and
future capabilities, as well as synchro-
nizing RDECOM's major S&T e orts
with the chief of sta 's six moderniza-
tion priorities. A number of RDECOM's
e orts that currently link directly to the
Army's priorities include robotics, arti-
cial intelligence and autonomy. ese
technologies will enable the NGCV
and FVL to perform both manned and
unmanned operations, which will be
required for the joint force in future air
and ground domains. RDECOM also
continues to develop technologies that
provide assured positioning, navigation
and timing and support cyber and elec-
tronic warfare, critical components for
both long-range precision res and the
network.
Integration across its six research, devel-
opment and engineering centers (RDECs)
and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory
(ARL) is an important component of this
line of e ort.
For example, plans for FVL will lever-
age multiple areas of expertise within
RDECOM, including engineers who
can produce technology that allows plat-
forms to perform complex navigation
and a communication system that will
operate in anti-access and aerial denial
(A2AD) environments. Because of antici-
pated future threats, FVL platforms also
will need active protection systems for
maneuver and enhanced weapon systems
for lethality. As stand-alone e orts, these
systems are impressive, but maintaining
the dominance the Army needs requires
a fully integrated suite of capabilities that
LIVE, VIRTUAL
AND INSTRUCTIVE
A Stryker vehicle commander interacts in real
time with a Soldier avatar that is operated
remotely from a collective trainer. ARL,
University of Southern California's Institute
for Creative Technologies, the U.S. Army
Combined Arms Center and the Program
Executive Office for Simulation, Training
and Instrumentation are working together to
develop a synthetic training environment that
links augmented reality with live training---one
of several RDECOM efforts that link to the
Army's modernization priorities. (U.S. Army
photo)
12 Army AL&T Magazine January - March 2018
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